The frown was prominent in his voice. I could hear how unyielding and how difficult he was going to be about the issue. How immovable he would be and how hard he would fight against it.

"Like you said. I am your villain." He spoke "The villain does not just give up and let the one thing that he wants more than anything in the world go. I will not let you go."

What I wanted to scream was how I never meant anything I said that night of the fight and accident. That I loved him, and I did not want him to leave.

"In the story, the protagonist usually defeats her villain. Then she gets her Prince Charming and lives happily ever after." I countered back as I tried to focus on anything else but the feeling of my heartbreak.

"You once told me you did not want a Prince Charming."

I hummed in agreement because I could not deny it. How could I when the only thing I wanted and could only ever want was him?

We approached a set of lights and when the car stopped, Stone rested his arm on the back of my seat before he reached down to the floor at the back of the car and grabbed something.

He then sat back up and set two shoes gently on my lap. They were not just any old random pair of shoes. They were my green converse. The ones I wore to The Fall Ball and the ones that I had threw at him.

"You are not Cinderella." He pointed out in his gravelly voice "She did not lose both her shoes."

Laughing to stop myself from crying, I met his gaze "I did not lose them. I threw them at this really large immovable giant that was blocking my path."

He let out a small husky yet strained laugh.

"My hit did not hurt him though." I added.

Stone rubbed his face with one of his large hands before he sat forward in his seat as the lights turned green "Yes it did."

I knew that he did not mean physically. The shoes bounced off him like a trampoline.

My shoes were left on the promenade when I threw them and when he got arrested. I bit my lip to contain my shaky smile as I ran my hand over one of the green converses. He must have gone back for them. That was the only explanation there was for him having them.

I had to ask anyway "You went back for my shoes?"